53: Delete profile image using PHP - PHP tutorial

How to delete profile images from users - Learn PHP backend programming. Today we will learn how to delete profile images from our users, based of the previous episode.

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[esma_]

There's a slight glitch when trying to upload between different file extensions. This done the trick for me:
as $match) { unlink($match); }
^ I placed that immediately before calling the move_uploaded_file method.
Great tutorial by the way!

[omranshahrour]

At 11:08 when he wanted to solve the problem of getting the file exclusively from the uploads folder..
you just can put a dot in the filename variable so it means anything after the dot or (whatever the extension is ) after profile + id + . + EXTENSION
and so that you preserve the compiler from being confused choosing the specific image, like so:
$filename = "uploads/profile" . $sessionid . "." . "*";

[matthiasdreyer]

... and of course: thanks for your great tutorials. As a newbie I'm learning a lot. Keep up the good work!

[pingrash]

Wasn't able to get glob to work for whatever reason but before watching this episode I had already added a column to the profileimg table to store the extension (inserted during image upload) so I was able to use sql statements to grab the extension from the table instead.
Requires a few more lines of code compared to the glob method but worked all the same. Also had to update the column to null after deleting the image.

I still need to figure out why glob wasn't returning any results though. It looks like a very handy method to know.

[shashwatpratap]

Hello Daniel, so i was thinking... Instead of doing all that complicated stuff to make sure you don't get profile11 in profile1 while globbing, why not just pass profile1.* instead of profile1* to the glob function? So your glob expression would be something like

$filename =

This would make sure that you have the desired file name, right?
Do reply if you read this :D

[naushadjadoon]

hi, i love your videos on php and thank you for help thousands of programmers. Can you please make a video on how we can Authenticate a user from Microsoft Active Directory because its the main thing nowadays as organizations want their employees to get authenticated from AD before using their intranet websites.

[abdulrahmann]

Hi denial!
I found a bug. If you upload one type of image lets say jpg and then you upload another type on top of it lets say png you will have 2 files uploaded to the server. Only 1 will show of course and then when you press the delete button once it will delete only the 1st found file and it will go back to the default profile picture but you will still have 1 more file uploaded to the server. You have to press the delete button again to delete the second file. It would be cool if you make a video on how to fix that :) Thank you.

[yasinmonkezi]

and ofcourse thanks for your awsome tutorials you are good teacher dude

[yasinmonkezi]

hey dear Daniel what are these extra codes and funcs??
you could just use session to update status and return default image

[kingsleychibuzor]

The best
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You are the best php tutor

[modemaxit]

Thank you so much sir.your videos are very helpful.

[matejbasic]

Great video as always. I was wondering, do you have any plans on making a bigger project like we did with the login system and the comment section just writting it only using Object - oriented PHP?

[atulyadav]

the last lecture was how to upload images and other files and next lecture is how to delete files. I have missed the in-between lecture related to profile images so is it possible to get files of those lectures or maybe of all lectures.

[Hiturion]

A tiny improvement could be made: if you have a image named "my.profile1.jpg" Picking the [1] element of the array after the EXPLODE is going to return "profile", not ".jgp" extension. We should return the last element of the arraw to make sure the extension is extracted. Would make your code a bit more robust ;)

[matthiasdreyer]

Hi Daniel, I was thinking why would you assemble the file name in a complicated way (1st explode() then concatenate) if you receive the complete filename of the profile image from glob() as $fileinfo[0]? I'm referring to index.php line 25-28 and deleteprofile.php line 7 to 11?

[amoghdatar]

13:07 may I ask you why aren't you now not naming the variables camel case?
like:
$fileactualext instead of $fileActualExt?
And will you please tell what is the best way to name variables?

[silvanbusuttil]

you could add the ' . ' before the * so it will be forced to find only the extension and not another pic with double 1

[TheNivesh]

plzzz make episodes on creating social network site plzzz as i watch lots of tutorials but i find that yours explanation are best and easy to understand so plzzz

[victoriadonaghy]

Is there any way to delete without having the if query and echo statements that it has or hasn't been uploaded?

[gabrielfono]

hi sir
please
in your previous, you have mentioned at one of the comments that you will show us in this video how to allow multiple extension since jpg was the only extension we could upload.
I haven't seen anything like that in your patreon.
I guess you might have forgotten
please I need your help and look forward to hearing from you back;